I could say I'm more passionate it since I just recently started drinking leaf teas.

As soon as I get some time on my hands, I'm going to try to develop some tea-based recipes. I've actually gone to school for pastry work, though I haven't had a lot of time to try things out recently. Really want to make some tea-based sorbet.

No change this year in my passion for tea. Fewer new classes of tea to discover, but many more teas are now 'old friends' that need to be visited regularly, and there are still plenty of new discoveries to go.

Today's tea is one that was new to me last year, "White Oolong" from Norbu. It's an unusually processed tea from Taiwan with some characteristics of an oolong, and a white-tea like delicacy at the same time. I have been quite passionately enjoying it.

I'm fairly new to tea, so it's easy to get more passionate i guess. And my teaware finally feels like extension of me, not some foreign subject. Like with bicycle, a while after you learn how to ride it you don't even think how to keep balance or how to turn.

I got for myself a "winter cup", thick yunomi ~330ml. Big sized cup is perfect for genmaicha and hojicha. And most important, tea doesn't get cold too fast!

This may sound insane, but for me discovering high-end loose leaf was a bit like a relationship... The first year or two I was in love, then perhaps the passion cooled a bit to the steady burn of a long-term affair...

8 years later we are still going strong, but I am not quite a intensely obsessed as that first couple years when it was all still so fresh and new

Ha ha....what a question for me to find after a long absence from TeaChat.

I have definitely become "less passionate" than I was a few years ago. I very rarely try anything new and stick to some of my old favorites that are really nothing special but I like them. Like broken leaf Assams and other dark, strong, inexpensive teas.

Glad to see some familiar names still hanging around here and thanks for keeping it going, Chip. I'll stop by more often again since I've been drinking more hot tea as of late and enjoy reading here when I do.